voting is done by secret ballot and continues until one city receives a majority of the votes.

The rest of the crowd agreed, voting the duo's unusual offering to top honors.

All through the morning the voting continued, and every vote was accompanied by a flash and a roar from heaven.

Most new voting machines are basically computers with touch screens instead of keyboards.

Their makers promise that the new machines will simplify voting and forever end the prospect of pregnant and hanging chads.

At breakfast with a friend, the subject of voting arrives with our morning coffee.

He still had influence in the industry, and no one wanted to tell him that he shouldn't be voting.

The current membership of the board will be unchanged, but the president will no longer serve as a voting member.

The meeting is again open to everyone, and the voting is also open, by show of hands.

Of the board's eight voting members, seven were in favor of the sale, and one abstained.

British Dictionary definitions for voting

vote

/vəʊt/

noun

1.

an indication of choice, opinion, or will on a question, such as the choosing of a candidate, by or as if by some recognized means, such as a ballot: 10 votes for Jones

2.

the opinion of a group of persons as determined by voting: it was put to the vote, do not take a vote, it came to a vote

3.

a body of votes or voters collectively: the Jewish vote

4.

the total number of votes cast: the vote decreased at the last election

5.

the ticket, ballot, etc, by which a vote is expressed

6.

the right to vote; franchise; suffrage

a person regarded as the embodiment of this right

7.

a means of voting, such as a ballot

8.

(mainly Brit) a grant or other proposition to be voted upon

verb

9.

(when transitive, takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to express or signify (one's preference, opinion, or will) (for or against some question, etc): to vote by ballot, we voted that it was time to adjourn, vote for me!

10.

(intransitive) to declare oneself as being (something or in favour of something) by exercising one's vote: to vote socialist

11.

(transitive; foll by into or out of, etc) to appoint or elect (a person to or from a particular post): they voted him into the presidency, he was voted out of office

12.

(transitive) to determine the condition of in a specified way by voting: the court voted itself out of existence

13.

(transitive) to authorize, confer, or allow by voting: vote us a rise

14.

(transitive) (informal) to declare by common opinion: the party was voted a failure

15.

(transitive) to influence or control the voting of: do not try to vote us!